MURPHY – The Summer of Love in 1967 was a media event, not a revolution
IF YOU’RE a certain age, you’ll remember 1967’s fabled Summer of Love. Thousands of young people flocked to San Francisco where, often with the help of illegal [Continue]
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MURPHY – Earhart still fascinates but she wasn’t the only female flyer
ALTHOUGH it’s been 80 years since she went missing, Amelia Earhart still captures attention. Just last week, there was a report on an impending effort to locate whatever [Continue]
MURPHY – ‘Tear down this wall!’: the speech that almost wasn’t
THE RELATIONSHIP between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev has been described as “among the most remarkable forged by any two world leaders in modern history.” And one [Continue]
MURPHY – When Buffalo Bill and his Wild West show took London by storm
ONE HUNDRED and 30 years ago, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West took London by storm. Opening to the general public on May 9, 1887, the show played to massive audiences during its [Continue]
MURPHY – Eighty years ago, a disputed election spurred the Spanish Civil War
ON APRIL 26, 1937, German planes bombed the Basque town of Guernica, killing around 1,000 people. Undertaken as part of Germany’s involvement in the Spanish Civil War, the [Continue]
MURPHY – A multi-candidate Tory leadership race from another era
I’M HAVING a hard time developing any interest in the federal Conservative leadership campaign. It’s not that the candidates repel me. So far, they just bore me. It was [Continue]
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